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- The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
- Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
- As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.
- Elija Lovejoy
- The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
- E.M. Cioran
- In the mirrorlike relationship between wine and human beings, Zinfandel owned more reflective properties than any other grape; in its infinite mutability, it was capable of expressing almost any philosophical position or psychological function. As a result, its own "true" nature might never be known.
- David Darlington, from his novel Angels Visits: An Inquiry into the Mystery of Zinfandel
- People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
- I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead- not sick, not wounded - dead.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- My land is bare of chattering folk;
the clouds are low along the ridges, and sweet's the air with curly smoke from all my burning bridges. - Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), SANCTUARY
- Favorite animal: steak.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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